Problem booting F10 from 3ware 9650SE controller

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 11:28 -0700, Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Fedora 10 on a 9650SE raid controller with a Raid 1
> configuration. The installation was successful. I have not been able to
> boot yet. Looks like initrd cannot access swap event though it loads
> 3w-9xxx properly. details follow.
> 
> The first boot attempt complained that the resume device did not exist,
> so i booted into rescue, but none of the partitions were mounted. Then i
> booted into rescue again, and mounted /, modified fstab by replacing
> labels, UUIDs, with corresponding partition names.../dev/sda[1-9]. Then
> i rebooted into rescue and all partitions were mounted and i was able to
> chroot /mnt/sysimage, and then regenerated initrd so it picks up changes
> in fstab.
> 
> When i try to boot the system again from disk i get the following error.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sda: Setting up hotplug
> Creating block device nodes
> Creating character device nodes
> Loading 3w-9xxx module
> Loading shpchp module
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/sda2)
> Creating root device
>  mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3, No such file or
> directory
> sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9  
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This was my first attempt at installing and booting from a raid
> controller.
> 
> Any thoughts.....??

Most likely you are hitting mkinitrd bug 466534
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466534